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Rodrigo Andres Reeves Diaz

Profesor Asociado

Universidad de Concepcion

Concepcion, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


Radio-astronomy, AGN blazars and the use of their monitoring lightcurves as probes of jet launching mechanism. Millimeter and sub-mm instrumentation. Harnessing of promising technologies for their use in astrophysics.

Educación

  •  Electrical Engineering, UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION. Chile, 2009
  •  Ingeniero civil electrónico, UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION. Chile, 2001

Experiencia Académica

  •   Associate professor Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION

    Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas

    Concepción, Chile

    2014 - At present

  •   Postdoc Full Time

    CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

    Physics, mathematics and astronomy

    Pasadena, Estados Unidos

    2009 - 2011

  •   Senior scientist Full Time

    CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

    Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy

    Pasadena, Estados Unidos

    2012 - 2014

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Senior scientist Full Time

    California Institute of Technology

    Pasadena, Estados Unidos

    2012 - 2014

  •   Associate professor Full Time

    Universidad de Concepcion

    Concepcion, Chile

    2014 - At present

  •   Observatory engineer Full Time

    California Institute of Technology

    San Pedro de Atacama, Chile

    2003 - 2009

Formación de Capital Humano


Wagner Ramírez, Doctor en ciencias de la ingeniería c/m ingeniería eléctrica, Universidad de Concepción, finished thesis, 2019
Felipe Vargas, Doctor en ciencias de la ingeniería c/m ingeniería eléctrica, Universidad de Concepción, on-going thesis, 2023
Javier Melillanca, Doctor en ciencias de la ingeniería c/m ingeniería eléctrica, Universidad de Concepción, on-going studies, 2024
Katherine Cortés, Doctor en Física, Universidad de Concepción, on-going thesis, 2023
Lilian Basoalto, Doctor en Física, Universidad de Concepción, on-going thesis, 2023
Brian Molina, Doctor en Física, Universidad de Concepción, on-going studies, 2024
Philipe Vergara, Doctor en Física, Universidad de Concepción, on-going studies, 2026

Fernando Cortés, Master en Ciencias Físicas, Universidad de Concepción, finished thesis, 2015
Leonardo Aguero, Master en Ciencias Físicas, Universidad de Concepción, finished thesis, 2018
Claudio Rivera, Master en Ciencias Físicas, Universidad de Concepción, finished thesis, 2018
Philipe Vergara, Master en Astronomía, Universidad de Concepción, finished thesis, 2022
Nicolás Montero, Master en Astronomía, Universidad de Concepción, finished thesis, 2023
Leidy Peña, Master en Astronomía, Universidad de Concepción, on-going thesis, 2023
Miguel Lopez, Master en Astronomía, Universidad de Concepción, on-going thesis, 2023
Lenin Valeria, Master en Astronomía, Universidad de Concepción, on-going thesis, 2023

Daniel Cabrera, Undergrad, Ingeniería Civil en Telecomunicaciones, Universidad de Concepción, finished thesis, 2015
David Arroyo, Undergrad, Ingeniería Civil en Telecomunicaciones, Universidad de Concepción, finished thesis, 2018
Alexandra Suárez, Undergrad, Ciencias Físicas y Astronómicas, Universidad de Concepción, finished thesis, 2016
Lilian Basoalto, Undergrad, Ciencias Físicas y Astronómicas, Universidad de Concepción, finished thesis, 2018
Gonzalo Burgos, Undergrad, Ciencias Físicas y Astronómicas, Universidad de Concepción, finished thesis, 2020
Natalia Machuca, Astronomía, Universidad de Concepción, finished thesis, 2018
Nicolás Martínez, Astronomía, Universidad de Concepción, finished thesis, 2018
Sarai Zapata, Astronomía, Universidad de Concepción, finished thesis, 2018
Natalia Molina, Astronomía, Universidad de Concepción, finished thesis, 2019
Brian Molina, Astronomía, Universidad de Concepción, finished thesis, 2019
Philipe Vergara, Astronomía, Universidad de Concepción, finished thesis, 2020
Miguel Lopez, Astronomía, Universidad de Concepción, finished thesis, 2020
Lenin Valeria, Astronomía, Universidad de Concepción, finished thesis, 2020


Difusión y Transferencia


Served as Head of Education and Public Outreach (EPO) of the Astronomy Department at Universidad de Concepción from 2015 to 2019. Activities organized by the EPO group served more than 20.000 people in 2018.


Premios y Distinciones

  •   Visiting professor

    Shanghai Normal University

    China, 2017

    Visiting professor of the Physics Faculty

  •   2020 IEEE MTT-S Best paper award

    IEEE

    Estados Unidos, 2020

    Best Paper Award Recognizes, on an annual basis, the most significant contribution in a paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology, for their paper “A Programmable Cryogenic Waveguide Calibration Load With Exceptional Temporal Response and Linearity,” IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science & Technology, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 434–445, July 2018.


 

Article (44)

COMAP Early Science. I. Overview
COMAP Early Science. II. Pathfinder Instrument
Four-year Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) Observations: On-sky Receiver Performance at 40, 90, 150, and 220 GHz Frequency Bands
Investigating the Blazar TXS 0506+056 through Sharp Multiwavelength Eyes During 2017-2019
Multiwavelength study of the gravitationally lensed blazar QSO B0218+357 between 2016 and 2020
New Tests of Milli-lensing in the Blazar PKS 1413+135
The Unanticipated Phenomenology of the Blazar PKS 2131-021: A Unique Supermassive Black Hole Binary Candidate
Association of IceCube neutrinos with radio sources observed at Owens Valley and Metsahovi Radio Observatories
Filament Rotation in the California L1482 Cloud
The Relativistic Jet Orientation and Host Galaxy of the Peculiar Blazar PKS 1413+135
Two Year Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) Observations: Long Timescale Stability Achieved with a Front-end Variable-delay Polarization Modulator at 40 GHz
Venus Observations at 40 and 90 GHz with CLASS
VHE gamma-ray detection of FSRQ QSO B1420+326 and modeling of its enhanced broadband state in 2020
Testing two-component models on very high-energy gamma-ray-emitting BL Lac objects
Twenty years of precipitable water vapor measurements in the Chajnantor area
Two-year Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) Observations: 40 GHz Telescope Pointing, Beam Profile, Window Function, and Polarization Performance
Two-year Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) Observations: A First Detection of Atmospheric Circular Polarization at Q band
Two-year Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) Observations: A Measurement of Circular Polarization at 40 GHz
Cryogenic Operation of a Millimeter-Wave SiGe BiCMOS Low-Noise Amplifier
Investigating the multiwavelength behaviour of the flat spectrum radio quasar CTA 102 during 2013-2017
The presence of interstellar scintillation in the 15 GHz interday variability of 1158 OVRO-monitored blazars
A Programmable Cryogenic Waveguide Calibration Load With Exceptional Temporal Response and Linearity
Measurement of the Ionospheric Reflection Height of an HF Wave in Vertical Incidence With a Resolution of Minutes
Multi-wavelength characterization of the blazar S5 0716+714 during an unprecedented outburst phase
37 GHz observations of narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies
Submillimeter InP MMIC Low-Noise Amplifier Gain Stability Characterization
An MMIC Low-Noise Amplifier Design Technique
Analysis of the distribution of precipitable water vapor in the Chajnantor area
The awakening of the gamma-ray narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy PKS 1502+036
GAMMA-RAYS FROM THE QUASAR PKS 1441+25: STORY OF AN ESCAPE
THE Q/U IMAGING EXPERIMENT: POLARIZATION MEASUREMENTS OF RADIO SOURCES AT 43 AND 95 GHz
THE Q/U IMAGING EXPERIMENT: POLARIZATION MEASUREMENTS OF THE GALACTIC PLANE AT 43 AND 95 GHz
Time correlation between the radio and gamma-ray activity in blazars and the production site of the gamma-ray emission
THE Q/U IMAGING EXPERIMENT INSTRUMENT
SECOND SEASON QUIET OBSERVATIONS: MEASUREMENTS OF THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND POLARIZATION POWER SPECTRUM AT 95 GHz
BLAZARS IN THE FERMI ERA: THE OVRO 40 m TELESCOPE MONITORING PROGRAM
Dust-correlated cm wavelength continuum emission from translucent clouds zeta Oph and LDN 1780
FIRST SEASON QUIET OBSERVATIONS: MEASUREMENTS OF COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND POLARIZATION POWER SPECTRA AT 43 GHz IN THE MULTIPOLE RANGE 25 <= l <= 475
Planck early results. XV. Spectral energy distributions and radio continuum spectra of northern extragalactic radio sources
The Cosmic Background Imager 2
Infrared-correlated 31-GHz radio emission from Orion East
Implications of the cosmic background imager polarization data
An enhancement to the constant range method for nonuniformity correction of infrared image sequences
Polarization observations with the cosmic background imager

ConferencePaper (8)

A pseudo-correlation MMIC-based 183 GHz water vapor radiometer
Design and characterization of the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) 93 GHz focal plane
The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor receiver design
Variable-delay polarization modulators for the CLASS telescopes
Converting 350 mu m tipper opacity to precipitable water vapor for extremely dry sites
Argus: A 16-pixel Millimeter-Wave Spectrometer for the Green Bank Telescope
Cryogenic Probing of mm-Wave MMIC LNAs for Large Focal-Plane Arrays in Radio-Astronomy
Adaptive Scene-Based Non-Uniformity Correction Method for Infrared-Focal Plane Arrays

Proyecto (19)

Improvement Of The Precipitable Water Vapor Estimation Of Ground-based Microwave Radiometers At Astronomic Observatories In Chile
Study, Design And Integration Of Electromagnetic Metasurfaces For Mmwave And Sub-mmwave Applications
Assembly and characterization of electronic modules for microwave and mm/submm wave frequencies
Centro De Astrofísica Y Tecnologías Afines
Desde La Astro-tecnología A La Industria Chilena
Development And Fabrication Of Lct First Light Instruments
The Lct Project: A Mm/sub-mm Astronomy Platform For Chile And China
Development Of Mmic Technology And Its Integration Into Radio-astronomy Receiver Systems
Nucleo Milenio En Tecnologia E Investigación Transversal Para Explorar Agujeros Negros Supermasivos
Desarrollo de prototipos de radiómetros de pseudo-correlación para sistemas ultra-sensitivos
Enabling mm AND sub-mm MMIC technology for scientific and innovative purposes
Establishing a Community of Chilean Astronomy Instrumentalists (CHAIN)
First Computational Astrochemistry Laboratory Using the Largest Shared Memory Computer in Chile
Support for Postdoc=> Towards the development of large format heterodyne mm and sub-mm focal plane arrays
Extending development and testing capabilities at CePIA to cryogenic temperatures
Sistema para desarrollo de prototipos electrónicos para implantes médicos, instrumentación astronómica y dispositivos de telecomunicaciones
Support for postdoctoral researcher in astronomical instrumentation
Lab outfit and development of millimeter-wave instrumentation capabilities at CePIA
Support for a water vapor radiometry campaign to study the tropospheric vertical profile of the PWV in the Chajnantor area
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Rodrigo Reeves

Profesor Asociado

Astronomía

Universidad de Concepcion

Concepcion, Chile

17
Ricardo Bustos

Profesor Asociado

Ingeniería Eléctrica

Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción

Concepción, Chile

15
Walter Max-Moerbeck

Assistant Professor

Astronomy

Universidad de Chile

Las Condes, Chile

9
Leonardo Bronfman

Full Professor

Astronomy

UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE, FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS FÍSICAS Y MATEMÁTICAS

Santiago, Chile

5
Raul Monsalve

Investigador

Universidad Católica de la Santisima Concepción

Concepcion, Chile

4
Sergio Torres

Profesor Titular

Departamento Electrico

UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION

Concepcion, Chile

3
Rolando Dünner

Associate Professor

Astrophysics

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

3
Gonzalo Palma

Associate Professor

Physics

FCFM, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

3
Simon Casassus

Profesor Titular

Astronomía

DEPARTAMENTO DE ASTRONOMÍA, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

2
Wagner Ramírez

Postdoctoral Reseacher

Departament of Antennas and Circuits

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

Helsinki, Finlandia

1
Guillermo Cabrera

Associate Professor

Department of Computer Science

Universidad de Concepción

Concepción, Chile

1
Amelia Stutz

Associate Professor

Astronomy

UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION

Concepcion, Chile

1
Jorge Pezoa

Associate Professor

Electrical Engineering

UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCIÓN

Concepción, Chile

1
Elias Ovalle

profesor asociado

geofisica

universidad de concepcion

concepcion, Chile

1
Gonzalo Burgos

investigador

Facultad de ingeniera

Universidad de Concepción

Concepción, Chile

1
Miguel Figueroa

Profesor Titular

Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica

Universidad de Concepción

Concepción, Chile